About

Amina (pronounced Ah-min-uh, not Ameena) Ahmad is a self-taught artist and maker living and working between Maryland and Washington, DC. She graduated with a BS in Environmental Science and Policy from the University of Maryland, and has spent many years exploring the sustainability of handmade through her candle company, Handmade Habitat. After spending years growing and expanding her company, Amina has taken a deliberate step back to spend more time with her family during these crucial years, and to make more time for her art practice.

Amina’s work explores patterns, movements, and meditations in nature and through her yoga practice, currently manifesting in a variety of work including pastels on paper, embroideries on fabric, and motifs in clay. As the mother of two toddlers, matrescence is another theme often explored, embodied in the softness and fogginess of memory, the strength and tenderness of parenthood, and the shifting identity of motherhood.